** How will you facilitate an authentic collaborative learning experience to promote deeper student engagement with content skills and concepts? For the lesson on energy conservation I will be putting the students into assigned groups. Each person will be responsible for sharing their research data and their proposed solutions to the problem. Each member will have to critique the other member’s analysis of the problem and offer comments and suggestions. A group discussion will also be held at the beginning of the lesson to critically think what their vampire loads may be in their own homes.
As members of collaborative groups, how will you support students’ efforts to identify solutions to the problem you are using as the framework for your PBL instructional unit?
I will provide the students with examples of various households and vampire loads in the intro lesson. They will not be given answers as to what could be their vampire loads in their house if they ask, however they will be made to critically think about them and use the collaborative discussion to gain their own answers. I will monitor the discussions and check the progress of each student’s research and data collection as they progress through the unit. The final project and analysis is something I will proctor and act as a guide as they complete.
What criteria will you use to assign learners to collaborative groups, including a rationale? What will be the size of the collaborative groups you will include in your unit?
The groups will consist of three students with similar levels of understanding on the concept. I use a pretest at the start of each unit and will use their scores to develop homogenous groups. I believe this will give the students even working levels within their groups. If a low level group struggles I will pair them with another group for part of the discussion so they may hear higher level groups ideas.
Which digital tools and websites are you considering for collaboration in your unit?
I will be using various websites for research purposes. There are online calculators for energy consumption that I will make available to the students. A wiki and a blog will also be used for collaboration on the final analysis of the data and comparison of solutions.
How will you assess participation of the students in their collaborative groups?
The monitoring of the discussion will ensure that each member participates at the expected level. I will be rating them on a 0-4 scale for this while walking around listening to them talk. The wiki and blog will be monitored for comments and suggestions on all the group members’ ideas after giving the students a rubric. An individual grade will be given to each student based on their participation.
For the lesson on energy conservation I will be putting the students into assigned groups. Each person will be responsible for sharing their research data and their proposed solutions to the problem. Each member will have to critique the other member’s analysis of the problem and offer comments and suggestions. A group discussion will also be held at the beginning of the lesson to critically think what their vampire loads may be in their own homes.
- As members of collaborative groups, how will you support students’ efforts to identify solutions to the problem you are using as the framework for your PBL instructional unit?
I will provide the students with examples of various households and vampire loads in the intro lesson. They will not be given answers as to what could be their vampire loads in their house if they ask, however they will be made to critically think about them and use the collaborative discussion to gain their own answers. I will monitor the discussions and check the progress of each student’s research and data collection as they progress through the unit. The final project and analysis is something I will proctor and act as a guide as they complete.- What criteria will you use to assign learners to collaborative groups, including a rationale? What will be the size of the collaborative groups you will include in your unit?
The groups will consist of three students with similar levels of understanding on the concept. I use a pretest at the start of each unit and will use their scores to develop homogenous groups. I believe this will give the students even working levels within their groups. If a low level group struggles I will pair them with another group for part of the discussion so they may hear higher level groups ideas.- Which digital tools and websites are you considering for collaboration in your unit?
I will be using various websites for research purposes. There are online calculators for energy consumption that I will make available to the students. A wiki and a blog will also be used for collaboration on the final analysis of the data and comparison of solutions.- How will you assess participation of the students in their collaborative groups?
The monitoring of the discussion will ensure that each member participates at the expected level. I will be rating them on a 0-4 scale for this while walking around listening to them talk. The wiki and blog will be monitored for comments and suggestions on all the group members’ ideas after giving the students a rubric. An individual grade will be given to each student based on their participation.